Rett R. Ludwikowski– Professor of Law

Professor Ludwikowski holds doctorate degrees in law and legal and political theory. Until 1982 he taught law and politics and held the chair of Modern Legal and Political Movements and Ideas and was the chairman of the Division of Law and Business at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.

After coming to the United States in 1982, Professor Ludwikowski continued his research work, while holding several visiting scholar and visiting fellow positions, including the USICA Program, U.S. State Department (1981), The Heritage Foundation (1981), Elizabethtown College, PA (1982-1983), and the Hoover Institute, Stanford University (1983). He was also a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship (1997 and 2004) and the residential Fellowship of Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany (1989). He came to the Catholic University of America in 1984 and has been a professor of law at the Columbus School of Law since 1985 and the director of the International Business and Trade Summer Law Program in Poland since 1991.

Professor Ludwikowski has served as the director of the Comparative and International Law Institute since the institute's inception in 1985.From 2001 to 2003 he was the managing editor of Comparative Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, a multi-volume publication of Oceana Publications, Inc.
Professor Ludwikowski has authored 20 books, including his most recently published books,International Trade.Warsaw: C.H. Beck, 2006 andThe Courts in the United States, TNOIK, Toru?, 2008.

Naukowy, 1979.(Received Award of the Rector of The Jagiellonian University.)

"Black Radicalism in the United States"Warsaw: PWN, 1976. (Received Award of the Rectorof The Jagiellonian University.)

"The Conservatism of the Kingdom of Poland During the Inter-Insurrectional Period: Considerations on Ideology and Politics"JagiellonianUniversityPress, 1976. (Receivedward of the Ministry of Science, Education and Technology.)

Articles

'Education and Promotion of Human Rights from a European and American Perspective", Cracow's International Studies, Vo 2/5 2008, pp. 99-116.

“Rebuttable Presumptions - New Developments in the U.S. “War” with Chinese Subsidies” (Customs and International Trade Bar Association, Quarterly Newsletter, Winter 2014).

"Toward Ideological Opposition: Academic Liberalism and Analitical Conservatism in the

Polish People’s Republic," chapter in the book , Mysl i Polityka (Ideas and Politics), Krakow 2011.

"The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the American Constitutional

"Constitutionalization of Human Rights in Selected Countries of the Region of the Former Soviet Dominance." Banner of Law Through the Word, Zakamycze (2002).

"The Latin American Hybrid Constitutionalism.The United States Presidentialism in the Civil Law Melting Pot."BostonUniversityInternational Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring 2003).

"Politicization and Judicialization of the U.S. Chief Executive's Political and Criminal Responsibility: A Threat to Constitutional Integrity or a Natural Result of the Constitution's Flexibility?"American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. L, Supplement (2002).

"Supreme Law or Basic Law?Decline of the Concept of Constitutional Supremacy." Cordozo International and Comparative Law JournalVol 9/2 (2001).

"Legal Aspects of Presidential Elections in the United States," 4/662.State and Law, Panstwo i Prawo (April 2001.

"Constitutional Culture in East-Central European Democracies." Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol 29, No 1 (2000). (Published also by Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw (2001), /in:/ Constitutional Cultures (ed. M. Wyrzykowski).

Medal of Merits from the Copernicus University of Torun, Poland, 2006.

Senior Fulbright Award, 2004.

Senior Fulbright Award, 1997.

Research grant from Earhart Foundation, 1991-92 and 2004.

Research grant from Bradley Foundation, 1992.

Residential Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute, Hamburg, Germany, 1990.

Research grant from Batory Foundation, 1990.

Research grant from the Rosenstiel Foundation, 1989, 1990.

Research grant from Wilbur Foundation, 1989.

Research grant from Earhart Foundation, 1988.

Research grant from Earhart Foundation and Eyer Wilbur Foundation, 1987.

Visiting Professor with grant from Earhart Foundation,

The Catholic University of America, January - May 1984 (teaching position).

In His Words ...

"Contemporary globalization has intensified the need for lawyers with a comparative background to effectively advise clients on the laws of more than one country. The Comparative and International Law Program is designed to provide students the opportunity to gain academic and practical training across a broad spectrum of topics in international and comparative law."

– Rett R. Ludwikowski

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